Jimmy Stahl

Trumpet, Flugel Horn, Conductor, Contractor.

Jimmy was raised in a musical family, his father is a great trumpet player born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and raised in Baltimore Maryland. Jimmy’s mother is a proficient piano player. It was Jimmy’s father that started him on trumpet at the age of 8 when they lived in Halifax N.S. Jimmy studied privately with his dad while also playing in school under D.H. Doane ( who is a music legend in the maritimes). It wasn’t till years later in high school in Hamilton, Ontario that Jimmy really became serious about his playing under the direction and encouragement of J.D. Hall. J.D. was a great teacher and it was his input into Jimmy’s life that drove him to pursuing music. Jimmy has also studied privately with some of the best players in the country. Jimmy became a proficient commercial trumpet player leaning heavily towards big band, jazz, rock, r & b, and gospel music. Jimmy has not only performed with many groups and artists, but has also contracted and conducted big bands and full orchestras for musicals, recordings, movies and television. Jimmy is a member in good standing of the American Federation of Musicians Local 293, Hamilton Guild of Musicians.